Panama with the Panama Canal has at least significance in the maritime world and a visiting Panama City is possible. In the case of Liberia, the country has no

Panama with the Panama Canal has at least significance in the maritime world and a visiting Panama City is possible. In the case of Liberia, the country has no relations to shipping and the ship and as well as the corporate registry were given to an American company called LISCR (Liberia Ship Corporate Registry Football) whose employees have probably never been in Liberia's capital Monrovia … most Americans of course would not want to spend any time in Liberia – too much crime and violence, and now there is Ebola too. In the banking world, the US is on a crusade against other offshore locations such as Switzerland while protecting its own offshore locations. In the naval world, on the other hand, the two major offshore locations – Liberia and Panama – have already been under (at least) strong American influence.